Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 Reference Manual page 216

Chapter 9. UNIX Support Guide
Note
Patch cluster .mpm files must be pushed either concurrently with or after —
never before — the .mpm files for the patches contained in that cluster.
Use solaris2mpm on each of the packages, patches, or patch clusters you wish to manage via
the Satellite, then use RHN Push to upload them to the channel you created for them.
4.2.2. Updating Through the Website
To install packages or patches on an individual system, click the name of the system in the
Systems category, select the packages from the Upgrade or Install lists of the Packages or
Patches tab, and click Install/Upgrade Selected Packages.
To run a remote command while installing the package, click Run Remote Command rather
than Confirm. Refer to
To install packages or patches on multiple systems at once, select the systems and click
System Set Manager in the left navigation bar. Then, in the Packages tab, select the packages
from the Upgrade or Install lists and click Install/Upgrade Packages. To complete the action,
schedule the updates.
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, the
client system to check in with RHN, automatically starts at boot time. On Solaris
systems,
command line in this way:
rhnsd --foreground --interval=240
The default location for
Below are the available options for
Option
-f, --foreground
-i, --interval=MINS
-v, --verbose
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Section 5, "Remote Commands"
does not start at boot time by default. It can be started from the
rhnsd
is
rhnsd
Description
Run in foreground
Connect to Red Hat Network every MINS minutes
Log all actions to syslog
for instructions.
daemon, which instructs the
rhnsd
/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhnsd
on Solaris:
rhnsd
.